All Things Are Contracts

Chapter 271: The Heavenly Kings Bronze Cauldron

A contract object is the most important treasure for a contractor. If the contract object is destroyed, the contractor’s cultivation is greatly damaged, possibly even becoming a waste contractor with no chance of recovery. Although contract objects are generally difficult to destroy, and in most cases, the contractor dies first. But the purple divine lightning before them was extraordinary, clearly not something that should be blocked by a contract object.

However, Baizhi had 100% trust in Zhanyue. She immediately summoned her contract pill cauldron and maneuvered it to fly up. The cauldron collided head-on with the purple spherical divine lightning in the air. Baizhi’s pretty face showed extreme tension. Although Zhanyue had told her to do this, she didn’t know the details of her contract object and was naturally nervous.

Beside her, Zhanyue’s brows furrowed slightly, also watching tensely, but with more anticipation than Baizhi. He wasn’t worried about the cauldron being damaged, but rather that the purple divine lightning might not be strong enough. After all, he knew this cauldron was on the same level as his Earth Mother Golden Cauldron, how could it be so easily damaged?

“Oh?” Lei Ying’s beautiful eyes turned, letting out a light exclamation as she looked at the cauldron in the air. She hadn’t expected this little sister to possess such a treasure.

The terrifying divine lightning didn’t destroy the cauldron, but was instead slowly absorbed by it. The divine lightning, which originally had the power to destroy heaven and earth, hadn’t even had a chance to explode or show its divine might to the world before being instantly destroyed as if it had encountered a black hole. It didn’t even create a spectacular scene, just being plainly absorbed.

It disappeared plainly, but the originally plain bronze cauldron burst into radiance. The cyan bronze cauldron gradually turned purple, and an ancient, aged aura slowly spread out. This aura made people want to bow down in worship. After the Earth Mother Golden Cauldron had appeared in the world, the Heavenly King’s Bronze Cauldron was finally unsealed.

Below, Baizhi felt herself enveloped by a mysterious power. The unsealing of her contract object greatly benefited her. She looked at her hand in confusion. In her palm, a purple divine lightning instantly condensed. She suddenly mastered the power of lightning, just as Zhanyue had mastered the Earth Vein Ghost Fire before. Now she possessed the Divine Might Lightning. However, Zhanyue’s Earth Vein Ghost Fire had already merged with the Human Ethics Bathing Fire and the Great Sun Essence Fire to form the Three Talents Wondrous Fire. The Three Talents Wondrous Fire, combining the powers of heaven, earth, and humans, had endless wonders that even Zhanyue hadn’t fully mastered.

Although the Divine Might Lightning wasn’t as good as the Three Talents Wondrous Fire, it was on the same level as the Earth Vein Ghost Fire. The most perfect pill refining process in the current world was to first use the Earth Mother Golden Cauldron to refine pills of extremely high purity, then put these pills into the Heavenly King’s Bronze Cauldron for tempering, elevating the grade of the pills. The combination of the two strongest pill cauldrons could break through the grade limits of alchemists. It wasn’t impossible for a ninth-grade alchemist to refine tenth-grade pills, and it could even become the norm. This was what made the Heavenly King’s Bronze Cauldron and Earth Mother Golden Cauldron so powerful.

“I didn’t expect you to possess a quasi-divine artifact. Congratulations,” Lei Ying returned to Baizhi’s side, then waved her hand again. The nearby lightning cherry tree’s branches rapidly expanded, turning into a huge spherical cage that could envelop ‘heaven and earth’, enclosing the thunder bird within. The large amount of lightning around the thunder bird couldn’t cause any damage to the fragile branch cage.

“Quasi-divine artifact? What does senior mean by quasi-divine artifact?”

“A so-called quasi-divine artifact is a treasure that doesn’t quite match up to a divine artifact…” Lei Ying said while maintaining the cage trapping the thunder bird.

“…” Zhanyue’s avatar struggled to roll his eyes. “Alright then, what is a divine artifact?”

Lei Ying smiled, deciding not to tease him anymore, and explained seriously: “True divine artifacts date back to the Second Era. When humanity was at its peak, it was the number one race just below the gods. And it possessed the power to slay deities. The deities that fell in the human-god war were forged into divine artifacts by human master craftsmen. Each divine artifact is the corpse of a deity. Perhaps the concept of divine artifacts in your era has changed, but true divine artifacts are a testament to humanity’s glory.”

“True divine artifacts are forged from the corpses of deities?” Zhanyue’s eyes widened. This concept of divine artifacts was different from that in the Myriad Spirits Realm. The so-called divine artifacts in the Myriad Spirits Realm were just a grade concept. Items like his Earth Mother Golden Cauldron and Heaven Punishing Demon Sword were divine artifacts in the Myriad Spirits Realm, but not true divine artifacts in this sense.

“That’s right. The star ship is a divine artifact, and so is the Heavenly Book. Divine artifacts aren’t that rare, after all, quite a few deities fell back then. It’s just that with humanity’s decline, most divine artifacts were either lost in the depths of the star sea, sealed away out of sight, or destroyed by the god races. After all, my glory is the enemy’s shame.”

“Moreover,” the woman paused, then added, “The star ship was forged from the remains of a space deity, and the Heavenly Book is even more extraordinary, refined from the corpse of a wisdom deity. Let me tell you another secret.”

The woman thought for a moment, then said, “Actually… the wisdom deity hasn’t completely perished.”

“Hasn’t completely perished?” Zhanyue shuddered, looking around at the void. “What do you mean, senior?”

“It means exactly what I said. Neither I, nor the so-called Spirit of the Heavenly Book, nor even the Void Emperor, are the true masters of the Heavenly Book world. The true master of the Heavenly Book world is the remnant soul of the wisdom deity. It no longer has its own will, but still retains its wisdom. This wisdom is used by powerful humans to maintain the operation of the Heavenly Book world. Now do you understand why the myriad worlds evolved by the Heavenly Book world are so realistic? Because it’s not really human power, but that of a god.” The woman finally revealed the greatest secret of the Heavenly Book.

“So the Heavenly Book is actually the corpse of the wisdom deity, and its wisdom still remains, used to calculate the operation of various virtual worlds in the Heavenly Book? No wonder… I always felt that the Void Emperor probably didn’t have such means. Indeed…” Zhanyue’s long-standing confusion was finally resolved. However, even greater puzzles arose along with it.

“If deities are so powerful that even after falling, even with only their so-called wisdom remaining and no will, they still have such terrifying power, then who exactly killed them, and where did the power of humanity at its peak come from?” Zhanyue couldn’t understand. He couldn’t imagine through what means humanity could possess the power to slay deities.

“Oh my, you’re really clever,” the woman smiled charmingly. “Because the deities are false gods. Among humans, there are true deities. I said before, the universe itself might have a will, it has its own preferences. Compared to false gods, it prefers true gods. As for the path to becoming a true god, that’s not a secret I can easily divulge.”

“You can think about this question yourself in the future. It’s time to end this farce.”

“What about quasi-divine artifacts?” Zhanyue quickly asked, as this question had been sidetracked.